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[cabbspapp]

Thanks

[weston]

Re-did my wiring for the hundredth time today - what do you think? (aside from how bad my camera is )

[Jodiuh]

That case is HUGE weston! Looks ripe for a dremel and some foam!

Followed the suggestion in this thread and came up w/ this:





2 things I learned here. First and most importantly, ghetto mods are king. I dropped 20C load with a very minor increase in noise and no added cost (fan was lying around). Secondly, pcie sound cards are so full of win. Just look at that little guy all tucked up and away from anything important. He wants nothing to do w/ the restriction of his buddy's airflow.

I've also added this sticker from a frying pan I picked up @ Wal-Mart.



I can only imagine the chics I'm going to get @ the next LAN party because of it.

[Demo]

Pretty nice mod, wish i could do that on my GTX285 w/o losing warranty as the local distro for Palit brand has placed their own self destruct sticker on one of the screws near the PCIe power.

[theodredge]

[illidan]

[FloofyFox]

Woot air cooling!







Front: 2x Scythe Gentle Typhoon 120mm
Rear: 2x Vantec Stealth 80mm
CPU: OCZ Vendetta 2

[ea6gka]

Guys has anyone seen pictures of mugen2 or TRUE black on a Gigabyte X58-UD3R in this forum or in the net? trying hard to find one but cant

[Marco André]

Guys has anyone seen pictures of mugen2 or TRUE black on a Gigabyte X58-UD3R in this forum or in the net? trying hard to find one but cant

I'll mount the system and take a pic for you with the true black What do you really want to see?

[MayDay84]

I´m more worried about the effekt. I had trouble running 2 x 4870 with same psu. If you have a overclocked quad and slightly oc:d gpu:s there just wont be enough amps..

Is that TX-series that crap?
I've got 2x4890 oc'd and Q9550@3.8GHz, I run these with HX620 and no problem. System pulls power max 400W from the wall when gaming..

[ea6gka]

oh great thanks alot mate , just wanna see the clearance between the HS and the first memory module , btw you dont have to put it together just for me just put it over the socket and see if its sufficient for a 120mm

[DavyBoy]

Here is some pics of my current rig, excuse my poor photography skills...









Cable management could be better, but I will be ripping it all apart again real soon to have the roof modded to take a 120.3 rad, the internals will be powder coated in red, and I am having some holes cut in the mobo tray for cable management..

I don't know why Silverstone didn't make holes in the tray to begin with???

[Andrea deluxe]

[celemine1Gig]

You guys like lapped and polished heatsink bases, right?

I thought you might like this pic of my lapped TRUE:




Its base was horrible before lapping. It was convex in the middle and even a little concave in the area near the edges. An absolute pain to lap that thing! But now, it looks like it should.
The edges are a bit rounded, but that's the normal "problem" with hand lapping. It's very hard to avoid it. And before someone says anything on the matter: I know that polishing doesn't really help performance wise, but I'm selling the heatsink right now(not here, but on the Hwluxx forums). And it definitely helps with that.

[El Greco]

Hell yeah!!! gears of war ftw!!!!!
Where did you found the GOW logo? did you made it yourself?

[DavyBoy]

You guys like lapped and polished heatsink bases, right?

I thought you might like this pic of my lapped TRUE:


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That is finished off nicely!!

I need to do this to both of my TRUE's, I wish that Thermalright would just polish them to begin with...

[celemine1Gig]

That is finished off nicely!!

I need to do this to both of my TRUE's, I wish that Thermalright would just polish them to begin with...

As I already posted, for normal operation the polishing does absolutely nothing in most cases. One could call it a waste of time. Just lap the bases flat with max. 600-800 grit wet/dry sandpaper and some water and soap. The most important thing is to use a really flat surface to lap on. Flat is much more imortant than shiny.

BUT, the polished finish looks nice. That's why I did it, now that I want to sell the heatsink.

Edit:

The steps that lead to the finish shown above:

1.)

Number one was realizing how bad the base of my TRUE really was.

2.)

It really took some time to get to that. It was perfectly flat, but not shiny at all.

3.)
The final step to get to the finish like in my pic above.
I used good 1000 grit sandpaper and a lot of soap and some water and lapped the base for about 5 minutes. Be careful not to produce new scratches once you've reached a good finish! It should be shiny now, but most likely with some scratches left. At that point, the good old NevrDull came into play. Polished the base with that for ~10 minutes. Then let it dry for a minute and finally polished it using just regular tissues. That's it. Afterwards I cleaned the whole heatsink using dish washing liquid ("Pril Kraftgel"; that stuff really gets the oily polish residues off) and water. Then I dryed it with the hair dryer on full heat and power and let it cool down for some time. At that point it was finally done.

[Jodiuh]

Looks just like mine did 2 yrs ago. $70 for an uneven base and a loose fit. Not only did I have to lap the crap out of mine too, but it needed the velcro on top to stay put.

[W34513]

HOLY ing ! what kind of temps are you getting with that?!?! what card is that too?

[lowfat]

Re-did my wiring for the hundredth time today - what do you think? (aside from how bad my camera is )

Would look 10 fold better if you ran the 24pin and GPU power cables behind the motherboard tray instead of out the front.

[+Flori+]

Finally i found the way in this forum.

[DavyBoy]

Finally i found the way in this forum.

Hey man, which PSU is this?

[Andrea deluxe]

[IRknnT]

hehe Andrea deluxe same fans as you...

[+Flori+]

Hey man, which PSU is this?

It's a Amacrox Calmer 560